Elizabeth Truman testified to her relationship with the defendant and their then-joint business, Kaleo Enterprises. The Trumans have been living separately since early 2009, but were recently legally separated several weeks ago, she said.

Kaleo Enterprises was formed by the couple in September 2001 as a joint business effort to buy and sell investment properties and manage leases for commercial and residential properties. Truman Sr. disassociated himself from the business in 2007 or 2008 and his wife, still managing the corporation, owns seven properties.

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In 2006, the couple owned and managed about 12 residential and commercial properties. According to Elizabeth Truman, she was never associated with her husband's company, JMM Properties. However, she did help keep the business' books and wrote checks from her personal bank account for its bills. JMM Properties never established its own bank account.

In the summer of 2006, Elizabeth Truman said she was asked by her husband to prepare five leases and provided information about the leasees. When JMM Properties applied for a loan to renovate its North Warner Street property, Eagle Equity required it to submit leases proving it would have income from rentals to repay the loan.

The unique information for each lease -- the name of the company, the rental fee, the square footage it would rent and its purpose -- were given to her by her husband. Conviber, the company Truman Sr. worked for at the time, was one of the five firms to supposedly sign a lease agreement to rent space in the building. The company's address on the lease was listed as the address of the North Warner Street factory, despite the fact that its nearest office was in Syracuse.

Elizabeth Truman signed as the leasor for JMM Properties, despite having no stake in the company nor authority to sign for it. Truman Sr. signed for Conviber as the leasee.

JT Improvements, a company owned by Elizabeth Truman's brother and sister-in-law, was another company to supposedly sign a lease. Elizabeth Truman's signature appears on the lease along with a signature she could not wholly identify -- she could only identify the first name in the signature as "Tammy." Again, the address of the company was listed on the lease as the North Warner Street site, despite the fact that the company had no physical address, she said.

Lambert Southwest, a company owned by Elizabeth Truman's father, supposedly signed a third lease to rent property in the factory. She signed her father's name to the lease for the Texas-based company. According to her, she received permission to sign it from her father after she had already penned his signature. The same North Warner Street address was listed. Her father never received a copy of the lease.

TMC Properties, owned by Elizabeth Truman's best friend, Tina Marie Chandler, signed a fourth lease agreement. Chandler was present when Truman Sr. and his wife drew up the leases and she signed her own. No signature for the leasor appears on the lease though, and the address for the company is listed as North Warner Street.

A fifth lease was drawn up for Liberty Self-Storage, a company that didn't exist at the time and hasn't since. Elizabeth Truman said her husband, along with another JMM Properties owner, Michael Orr, planned on installing climate-controlled storage units in the building. The signature on the lease appears to be Bruce Chandler, Tina Chandler's husband, but Elizabeth Truman claimed she could not read it. No signature appears for the leasor and the same address is listed.

According to the lease, security deposits, due at the time the leases were signed, were never paid. Elizabeth Truman testified that the leases were all drawn up the same day and left on her desk next to her computer.

"I don't know what happened to them after that," she said.

She shared an office with Tina Chandler. Each had a key to get into the office; Truman Sr. did not. They eventually made their way to Eagle Equity as part of JMM Properties' loan application.

Elizabeth Truman was brought to tears as Defense Attorney Edward Menkin questioned her about her relationship with her two step-sons, Jeffrey Truman Jr. and Brian Truman. He also asked about her daughter, who despite no biological connection, Truman Sr. adopted.

Elizabeth Truman was adamant that the leases were simply proposed as part of a plan to figure out the income the property would bring in when applying for the loan. She said no one ever suggested at the time that they were being used to commit fraud.

Glenn Holladay, Elizabeth Truman's father, testified next in connection with the lease signed in his name. Holladay described his company as a "shell company" with no assets or employees. The first time he saw the lease that he was purported to have signed was during his grand jury testimony earlier this year.

Holladay said he did give his daughter permission to sign his name several years before she signed the lease. He never committed to leasing any space in the building, he said.

Frank Pucciarelli, CEO of Conviber, testified about a similar unfamiliarity with a lease for his company. The company, based out of Pittsburgh, leases four of its Northeast locations and owns three. Pucciarelli said he always signs leases himself, but his son may have signed one lease for the company after he reviewed it first.

He said he never talked with Truman Sr. about leasing the property, he had never seen the building, nor did he give him authorization to sign the lease. Pucciarelli was aware of conversations his son may have had with Truman Sr. about leasing space, but they just talked about it, he said.

"It didn't go any farther than that," he said.

Pucciarelli also outlined Truman Sr.'s employment at the company. A salesman for 17 years, Truman Sr. was the first person hired in New York.

"He was our best salesman," he said, describing Truman Sr. as hard-working. "He was a good employee."

Truman Sr. was fired the day he was indicted on federal charges. Driving a vehicle insured by Pucciarelli, he didn't think Truman Sr. would be focused enough to drive safely and he didn't want to take that chance. He had also learned about Truman Jr.'s drunk driving accident in which he was driving a Conviber vehicle. Truman Sr.'s legal battles were also becoming a major distraction for the company, he said.

Tina Chandler testified about the lease she signed for her company, TMC Enterprises. She said Truman Sr. asked her to sign the lease. According to Chandler, she intended to lease space to open temperature-controlled storage units for legal documents, although the lease states they would store construction equipment.

Despite the dilapidated, old and "gross" conditions of the building, Chandler said she agreed to the lease because "Jeff (Truman Sr.) always seemed to make things work." In a statement given to police Feb. 13, 2007, Chandler said she never signed the lease, but later admitted to forgetting she had.

Chandler's husband, Bruce Chandler, saw the lease he supposedly signed for the first time in Madison County Court. He confirmed that he did not sign the lease or authorize anyone else to sign it. He has no affiliation with Liberty Self Storage, the company supposedly leasing space.

Oneida Realtor Arthur Pratt also testified Wednesday. Pratt was contracted by the Stantons to list the North Warner Street property when they were attempting to sell it in 2005. Pratt reduced the price from $300,000 to $250,000 and then to $175,000 before Truman Sr. and Orr approached him with a purchase offer.

The purchase agreement was signed by the individuals, not their company, JMM Properties, he said. Truman Sr. contracted Pratt to be the exclusive agent in leasing portions of the property to commercial vendors. The professional service agreement precluded any other Realtor from leasing the property, but if JMM did, Pratt would get a 10 percent commission from the lease.

Pratt showed the property to several potential tenants, including Hood Dairy, Ferris Industries, a few lumber shops and a motorcycle shop, but no one signed leases. Pratt never showed the property to any of the companies purported to have signed leases -- Conviber, JT Improvements, Lambert Southwest, Liberty Self Storage and TMC Properties. He had ongoing discussions with Truman Sr. about the need for additional funds to renovate the building, but he never saw any signed commercial leases nor did he receive any commission on leases procured by other real estate agents.

Pratt also discussed Truman Sr.'s other options for the building, including salvaging it in pieces and demolishing it. He told Truman Sr. that the five-acre property would be as valuable if not more valuable without the building.

The last witness Wednesday was Frank Padula, a scientist with the New York State Police Forensic Investigation Unit. Padula performed tests on evidence taken from the scene of the fire for traces of ignitable liquids. Five samples were submitted to his lab after a NYSP K-9 unit alerted to ignitable liquids. Four of the five samples came back negative for ignitable liquids, but Padula said that doesn't mean they weren't present.

About 70 percent of the samples taken when a K-9 unit alerts come back negative for traces of ignitable liquids. Even with some of the most advanced tools in the country, Padula said that forensic instruments cannot be produced to be as accurate as the natural ability of a dog. He stressed that K-9 units are used to protect officers against dangers and it's the lab's job to identify that danger, because dogs cannot testify.

Hurd anticipates today will be the last day of witness testimony before closing arguments are made and the jury deliberates. It will need to return a unanimous verdict. Truman Sr. faces six federal charges for aiding and abetting arson and mail, loan and insurance fraud.